CHILDREN'S WARBLER. 181 



Childeen's Warbler, Sylvia Chilbrenii. 



Adult Male. Plate XXXV. Fig. 1. 



Bill longish, straight, subulato-conical, acute, the edges sharp, the 

 gap line slightly deflected at the base. Nostrils basal, lateral, elliptical, 

 half closed by a membrane. Head and neck of ordinary size. Body ra- 

 ther slender. Feet of ordinary length, slender ; tarsus longer than the 

 middle toe, covered anteriorly by a few scutella, the uppermost long ; 

 toes scutellate above, free, the hind toe of moderate size ; claws slender, 

 compressed, acute, arched. 



Plumage soft, blended, tufty. Wings of ordinary length, acute, the 

 first quiU longest. Tail shortish, when closed nearly even. A few short 

 bristles at the base of the upper mandible. 



Bill brown, lighter beneatli. Iris dark brown. Feet flesh-coloured. 

 The general colour of the upper parts is yellowish-green, tinged with 

 brown. Forehead, sides of the head, supra^ocular region, and under 

 parts generally deep yellow. Quills dusky on the inner webs. Tail 

 feathers dusky on the outer webs, yellow on the inner, excepting the two 

 middle, which are dusky. 



Length 4| inches, extent of wings 7| ; bill along the ridge —, along 

 the gap /g. 



Adult Female. Plate XXXV. Fig. 2. 



The female is considerably smaller. The distribution of its colour- 

 ing is the same, but the tints are much lighter, the upper parts being 

 pale yellowish-green tinged with grey ; the sides of the head, supra-ocular 

 and frontal spaces pale yellowish-grey, and the under parts of a tint ap- 

 proaching to lemon-yellow. 



The Wild Spanish Coffee. 



Cassia occidentalis, Willd. Sp. PI. vol. ii. p. 518. Pursh, Flor. Amer. vol. i. 

 p. 305 — Decandria Monogynia, Linn, Leguminosje, Juss. 



This species is distinguished by its ovato-lanceolate, quinquejugate 

 leaves, scabrous at the margin, the outer larger ; its many-flowered axil- 

 lar and somewhat panicled peduncles ; and its linear, falciform legumes. 

 It flowers thi-ough the summer, and grows chiefly in old fields, in the 

 Southern States. 



